Are you ready for your mid-autumn party?

We are spoilt for choice when it comes to moon cakes. They can be sweet, salty or both. Baked or snow skin, even jelly. What is the best beverage to pair with your moon cakes?

Here’s a quick guide to some suggested pairings for serving your family and friends. And you can glam up your moon cake party with bird nests soup. Enjoy!

Baked Lotus Paste Moon Cakes With Salted Egg Yolks

What to pair them with:

1. Pu’er Tea (the famous Chinese Red Tea)

In addition to its restorative properties, it is also a famous diet aid, comes packed with fluoride for healthy teeth, and is often drank after meat-heavy or greasy meals as it improves digestion and cuts through fat. Good to sip some Pu’er after a few bites of the sweet lotus paste and salted egg yolk.

2. Oolong Tea (Chinese Black Tea)

The most famous oolongs are Iron Buddha (铁观音, tiěguānyīn) and Big Red Robe (大红袍, dà hóng páo). These rich teas, woody and thick with roasted aromas, would blend well with the sweet and salty moon cakes. Oolong tea is also known to increase fat metabolism.

3. Warm Pandan Double Boiled Bird Nests Soup

Add less or no sugar to the bird nest soup for the refreshing fragrant pandan aroma and taste. It compliments the sweetness of the lotus paste. Best to serve the bird nests soup after dinner, in the late evening when the full moon is already hung high above the sky.

4. Warm Red Date Goji Double Boiled Bird Nests Soup

Double boiled bird nests with red dates and some goji for the natural sweetness and aroma. The dates in the soup would go well with the lotus paste in the moon cake. Besides, the red dates and red-orange goji bird nests soup would add festive colours to the dessert table!

Snow Skin Moon Cakes With Custard or Green Tea Paste

What to pair them with:

1. White or Floral Teas

Lily, Jasmine or chrysanthemum. These teas are light and fair which suit light delicacies like the snow skin moon cakes. White tea leaves also tend to retain the most polyphenols, flavonoids and catechins of any tea, which translates to powerful free-radical fighting properties that reduce the risk of cancer, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, and even fight bacteria and viruses.

2. Green Tea

Japanese Matcha or the famous Chinese variety of Dragon Well Tea (龙井茶, lóngjǐng chá) will surely go well with snow skin and light custard paste.

3. Double Boiled Bird Nests Soup Sweetened With Honey

Do not add any sugar to the soup. Instead, after double boiling, let the bird nests soup cool down first, and then add the desired amount of honey to your soup. Serve it lukewarm. Most kinds of honey would do.

4. Rock Sugar Double Boiled Bird Nests Soup

The good old rock sugar recipe. Can’t go wrong! Can be served warm or chilled. Especially when taken chilled, makes a perfect pairing with bite size pieces of chilled, soft, chewy snow skin moon cakes.

King of Nests is having a Mid-Autumn Festival Sale (up to 30% off storewide) until 30 Sept 2015! Check this out to find out more about the promo!